Download e-book for kindle: A Mile of Make-Believe: A History of the Eaton's Santa Claus by Steve Penfold

A Mile of Make Believe examines the original historical past of the Santa Claus parade in Canada. This quantity makes a speciality of the Eaton’s subsidized parades that happened in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg in addition to the shorter-lived parades in Calgary and Edmonton. there's additionally a dialogue of small city possible choices, geared up through civic teams, carrier golf equipment, and chambers of commerce.

By targeting the pioneering attempt of the Eaton’s division shop Steve Penfold argues that the parade eventually represented a paradoxical kind of cultural strength: it allowed Eaton’s to press its photograph onto public lifestyles whereas additionally reflecting the decline of the as soon as robust save. Penfold’s research finds the "corporate superb" – a visible and narrative mixture of meticulous association and eccentric type– and its impact on parade traditions. Steve Penfold’s substantial analytical abilities have produced a piece that's at the same time a cultural historical past, historical past of industrial and remark on consumerism. expert historians and most people alike will be remiss if this wasn’t on their vacation want list.

Asians have settled in each kingdom within the Western Hemisphere; a few are contemporary arrivals, different descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries in the past. Bringing jointly essays through 13 students from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this certainly transnational Asian American experience-one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean.

A pioneering quantity evaluating the nice ancient empires, resembling the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. top interdisciplinary thinkers learn tributary empires from varied views, illuminating the significance of those prior sorts of imperialism to expand our viewpoint on sleek matters approximately empire and the legacy of colonialism.

This ebook explores how the Danish experts ruled the colonized inhabitants in Greenland within the 19th and 20th centuries. competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland in addition to Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial venture as ruthless and brutal extraction of a susceptible indigenousness humans; the opposite narrative emphasizes nearly completely the benevolent elements of Danish rule in Greenland.